www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6340015/Boy-trapped-in-UFO-like-balloon-floating -over-Colorado.html
'A Larimer County Sheriff's spokesman confirmed that the boy was inside the balloon, which she described as "a homemade helium balloon made to look like a UFO."
Reports said the boy got into the device, which it described as a "home-made flying saucer" at his family's home in Fort Collins and that it then came loose from its tether.
The aircraft, which can reportedly reach altitudes of 10,000 feet (3,048 metres), was last spotted flying over nearby Weld County.
Kathy Davis, spokesman for the sheriff's office. told CNN: "Our office received a call this morning and our emergency service on patrol responded to a (Fort Collins) address on reports of a home-made flying saucer built by an adult male that came loose from its tether and took off, flying in an easterly direction.
"Apparently a six-year-old boy had climbed into the access door and is in the device. "'